UNKLE – WHERE DID THE NIGHT FALL
2011-06-13Brand new video for the track ‘Money and Run (feat. Nick Cave).
Crafted by the hands of esteemed director Tom Haines, the video brings to life the twisted undertones of a distinctive Nick Cave vocal.
HOLY GHOST! WAIT & SEE
2011-06-13Band members Alex Frankel and Nick Millhiser are actually played by their own dads in the video!
From the Holy Ghost! Self-Titled LP. Directed by Ben Fries.
CHROME SALVAGE BAG SERIES
2011-06-13The new Chrome Salvage Bag Series uses reclaimed materials for the external panels of our Heritage Citizen to create unique, one-of-a-kind bags. Built in Chico, California, each series is limited by the quantity of available material. Each bag is stamped with the lot size and its unique number within the lot.
For the first series they re-purposed reclaimed US Army tents. You can get them now from Chrome SF, NYC and Chicago shops – limited to 40 bags per store – or through select dealers.
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KATHARINA GROSSE
2011-06-06Grosse’s most recent canvases combine a complex artistic vocabulary. Patterns of diagonal hatchings and closely set strips of color cross with delicate, almost transparent lines to form the basic rhythm. At the edges of the paintings, the structures open up, providing a view on their ground. One type of shape that frequently appears in Grosse?s works is the ellipses, which she employs as a convex, vaulted sculpture or as an image.On the canvas, physical forces seem to affect its form. It can take on the soft appearance of a drop, apparently flowing vertically across the painting. Set in motion, it practically begins to swing, developing a palpable dynamic. With the help of ellipses-shaped stencils, individual areas are left open, while in other places, they overlap and permeate each other, becoming so dense that they seem to be imploding.
Exhibition runs through to July 16th, 2011
Barbara Gross Galerie
Theresienstr. 56, Hof 1
80333 Munich
Germany
JIM GAYLORD – SPOILERS
2011-06-06Gaylord’s work draws upon abstracted imagery found within high-speed action sequences in motion pictures. He creates compositions by collecting film stills of fleeting shapes and special effects, using a computer to superimpose several frames together at once. These studies become the source material for paintings, resulting in something like a painted collage.
The title of the exhibition, Spoilers, refers to the concept of revealing plot elements in a film or story that give away the outcome, in part or in its entirety. Pitting this idea against itself, Gaylord’s work foils the entire narrative format, offering specificity of form, while withholding information that would allow a traditional, linear understanding of the picture.The source films range from period action dramas, such as “Troy” and “Pirates of the Caribbean,” to MTV’s “Jackass,” “The Waterboy” and “World Trade Center.” The genres of armed conflict and sports suggest a quasi pun for Spoilers, as in the “spoils” of war.
Opposite – Throne, Overthrown, 2011
Exhibition runs through to July 1st, 2011
Jeff Bailey Gallery
625 W 27th St – Ground Floor
11th & 12 Ave
New York
NY
10001
NELLEKE BELTJENS – THEY DON´T KNOW EITHER
2011-06-06Since her first show “Fragments of the Parts” (2009), the artist has been consistently developing her unusual and idiosyncratic approach to drawing. Among the basic principles of her work is the fragmenting of the line, which is questioned as a fundamental drawing element, the artist breaking it up into numerous short marks that stand perpendicular to the extension of the line, thus transforming it into a rhythmic structure.In turn, as a result of the countless superimposed “lines” running parallel and crosswise, structures come about that are difficult to define in terms of concept. They are full of movement, characterized by abrupt changes in direction and different degrees of intensity and density, whereby the positive forms are always confronted with the negative areas of the white drawing paper in a way that attributes both an equal value.
It is essential to the artist that her works may not be completely comprehended from any perspective view. Standing further away, the drawings are perceived as being rather vague due to the atmosphere they exude, though from close up they break up into countless individual elements, which we may no longer relate to one another.
Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2011
Galerie Christian Lethert
Antwerpener Straße 4
Cologne D-50672
Germany
